See no evil? Only implicit attitudes predict unconscious eye movements towards images of climate change

Semiotica

Volumn 2012, Issue 192, 2012, Pages 315-339

  Beattie, Geoffrey ^a   McGuire, Laura ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MANCHESTER   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Environmental behavior; Implicit association test; Implicit explicit attitudes; Sustainability; Unconscious eye movements

Indexed keywords

EID: 84870398303     PISSN: 00371998     EISSN: 16133692     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1515/sem-2012-0066     Document Type: Article

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